# decree
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dɪˈkɹiː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː

### Noun

decree (plural decrees)
* An edict or law.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
** 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?
* (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
* (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
* (religion) A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.

#### Derived terms

* consent decree
* counterdecree
* decree absolute
* decree arbitral
* decree nisi
* decreer
* decree time
* final decree
* imperial decree
* postdecree
* predecree

#### Translations

Arabic: أَمْر (ar) m (ʔamr), مَرْسُوم (ar) m (marsūm)
Armenian: պատգամ (hy) (patgam)
Old Armenian: հրովարտակ (hrovartak)
Azerbaijani: göstəriş, fərman (az), dekret
Bashkir: фарман (farman)
Belarusian: ука́з m (ukáz), дэкрэ́т m (dekrét), пастано́ва f (pastanóva)
Bulgarian: декре́т (bg) m (dekrét), у́каз (bg) m (úkaz)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 法令 (zh) (fǎlìng), 上諭 / 上谕 (zh) (shàngyù), 詔書 / 诏书 (zh) (zhàoshū)
Czech: dekret m
Danish: dekret n, forordning c
Egyptian: (wḏ)
Esperanto: dekreto (eo)
Finnish: asetus (fi), määräys (fi), dekreetti (fi)
French: décret (fr) m
Galician: decreto (gl) m
Georgian: ბრძანებულება (brʒanebuleba)
German: Erlass (de) m, Dekret (de) n, Verordnung (de) f
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍆𐍄𐍃 f (gagrēfts)
Greek:
Ancient: δόγμα n (dógma), πρόσταγμα n (próstagma)
Hindi: न्यायिक आदेश (nyāyik ādeś), आज्ञा (hi) f (ājñā), डिक्री f (ḍikrī), विधान (hi) (vidhān)
Hungarian: rendelet (hu), dekrétum (hu)
Indonesian: dekret (id), titah (id)
Irish: acht (ga) m
Italian: decreto (it) m, ordinanza (it) f
Japanese: 命令 (ja) (めいれい, meirei), 詔書 (ja) (しょうしょう, shōsho), 詔勅 (ja) (しょうちょく, shōchoku)
Korean: 법령(法令) (ko) (beomnyeong), 칙령(勅令) (ko) (chingnyeong)
Latin: ēdictum n, dēcrētum n, iussiō f
Macedonian: декре́т m (dekrét)
Malay: dekri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forordning (no) m or f
Nynorsk: forordning f
Ottoman Turkish: امر (emr, emir)
Persian: فرمان (fa) (farmân)
Polish: dekret (pl) m
Portuguese: decreto (pt) m
Romanian: decret (ro) n
Russian: ука́з (ru) m (ukáz), декре́т (ru) m (dekrét), постановле́ние (ru) n (postanovlénije)
Slovak: dekrét m
Spanish: decreto (es) m
Swahili: dikrii (sw)
Swedish: dekret (sv) n, förordning (sv) c
Turkish: genelge (tr), sirküler (tr), kararname (tr)
Ukrainian: ука́з m (ukáz), декре́т m (dekrét), постано́ва f (postanóva)
Zazaki: qanunname m, ferman (diq) :
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### Verb

decree (third-person singular simple present decrees, present participle decreeing, simple past and past participle decreed)
* To command by a decree.
    A court decrees a restoration of property.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 22:28:Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.
** 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
** 2022 November 8, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Why Does This Tibetan Kitchen Also Cook Sichuan Food?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-08, Food‎:The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.

#### Derived terms

* decreeable
* redecree
* undecreed

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* recede

## Middle English
### Noun

decree
* Alternative form of decre